Dr. Dorothy’s story is incredibly inspirational and you’ll connect immediately to the warmth and humor she exudes as she tells her story of resilience after growing up in an orphanage from birth till age 3 as an illegitimate daughter of an unwed mother in South Boston. Once she was adopted, she lived in a playpen on the outside porch until she was 6 years old so that her grandmother didn’t have to acknowledge her existence inside the house.

Fast forward and Dr. Dorothy is the author of several books such as Real Women Change The World: Letting the Good Girl Die so the Real Women Can Live, where she shares the importance of emotional intelligence, mindset, mindfulness, and communication as imperative tools for women in leadership.

She is also an international speaker, author, consultant/master coach, and frequent radio, podcast, and television guest is also Past-President of the National Speakers Association – CT and the founder of 4 companies.
In this episode you’ll hear:

• Why do so many people choose to live in illusion- stuck in jobs that they hate or lives that don’t fulfill them.
• We stay in situations that deplete us because there is a payoff in staying.
• What is the story of “the victim” and how can you get out?
• Why stagnancy in your life will eventually make you sick
• What women’s leadership makes possible in the world.
• How Dorothy’s traumatic upbringing informed her life helped her become who she is today.
• What is the “risk” of transformation?
• Why women are uniquely suited for helping the world to unify in a global community.

A psychotherapist, Dr. Dorothy was in practice for 25+ years. As a motivational speaker, Dr. Dorothy brought a history of living in an orphanage, being adopted and raised in the housing projects of South Boston in a violent alcoholic home. She later became a Catholic nun, an international airline stewardess, and so much more, showing that faith, humor, and passion make anything possible.

Today, whether supporting individual clients in recognizing and living their Purpose or supporting CEOs in creating a culture of Purpose within their organization, Dr. Dorothy brings first-hand knowledge of the challenges facing those who want to live and work in a culture that feeds rather than drains them.
In that light, Dorothy has supported highly successful women from all levels of success, from Park Ave, NYC to a small town in Maine. Consequently, patterns and similarities in leadership are readily understood as she brings extensive wisdom, knowledge, and experience to the table. Combining her recognition that mindset and communication skills set us apart, with her ability to make the complicated simple, Dr. Dorothy is someone to learn from whether as a speaker, trainer, coach, or consultant.

Links:

• Website - Ask Dorothy
• Book: Real Women Change The World: Letting The Good Girl Die So The Real Woman Can Live: Martin-Neville PhD, Dr Dorothy A.
• Project: The You You're Called To
• Instagram: Dr Dorothy Martin-Neville (@askdrdorothy)
• Facebook : Dorothy A Martin Neville

Liz and I decided to riff on what is currently happening in our country and why it seems so much easier to blame, shame, numb, and deflect, and why it is so important that we start working on the unresolved and unhealed wounds within.

We hope that this episode will normalize the human mess with some intersecting conversations that may reveal more awareness and even normalize the healing process.

• In this episode, we define "the mess” as something we either try to hide or won’t hold ourselves accountable for because we don’t want to look at our own shadows or unhealed wounds.
• We have a choice to make; we can choose to be willfully ignorant of the root causes of our disruption, of our disparity, and our needs to heal, but in doing so, we not only do great harm within ourselves, we're actually harming the collective energy and creating a bigger mess.
• Part of the journey of enlightenment and consciousness, however, requires us to overcome this struggle.
• Nobody really wants to talk about hard things. We tend to disassociate from difficult situations and to avoid challenging topics that make us feel vulnerable.
• We don’t often think of our ignorance as being willful, but as Liz mentions in this episode, it’s a choice to continue to choose suffering.
• Many of us are hiding a mess in our lives behind a prettier picture we show the world.
• Addiction, family dysfunction, and trauma are part of a perpetuated generational cycle if we don’t actively choose to break that cycle.
• If you have grown up this way, you may not have a healthy model for behaving differently, but we have access to healthy models these days if we seek them.
• Often we create enemies outside ourselves when the real war is the one we are having on the inside. Our refusal to look at ourselves as the original source of our own suffering is what contributes to many of the isms.
• When we talk about creating more unity in the world, we first have to look at our own unity within ourselves. If we are fractured inside, we must be accountable for healing ourselves.
• Qanon is perhaps an example of a movement of people who are hiding their own white supremacy, racism, sexism, unresolved rage, and fear, and are refusing personal accountability for the way things are in their own lives. Instead, they blame outside forces or direct their attention on fantastic distractions so that they don’t have to look at their own stuff.
• We are all in an ongoing state of healing, but we will not get anywhere unless we take inventory of our own personal mess and ask for help and support where we need it.

Links:

• Book: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering: Nhat Hanh, Thich
• The Revelation Project Episode 52: Sage Polaris - Work, Life, Love
• The Soul Energy
• Facebook:The Soul Synergy - Synergistic Healing & Divine Connection
• Instagram :The Soul Synergy 2020 (@soulsynergy2020)